List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Before 1900
1. The Valley Setting
2. Poughkeepsie Grows from Village to City
3. Improvements and Conflicts in the Late
Nineteenth Century
Part II. A Diversified
Industrial Economy and Society
4. The Cityscape at the Turn of the
Twentieth Century
5. A New Wave of Immigrants Changes
the Citizenry
6. Municipal Reform and Urban Planning
7. Changes to the Space Economy Between
the Wars
8. Business and Labor in the 1920s and 1930s
9. Depression in FDR’s Home County
Part III. IBM Remakes the
Region as Its Largest Employer
10. Technological Revolution Transforms
the Region: IBM
11. IBM Triumphs with the 360 Mainframe
Computer
12. The Quest for Inner-City Revitalization:
Urban Renewal
13. Social Planning—The Model Cities
Experiment
14. Issues and Causes of the 1960s
15. Change in Higher Education in
the Valley
16. IBM Downsizes, but the Valley Recovers
Part IV. Postindustrial
Poughkeepsie and the Valley
17. The Nonprofit Service Sector Grows
in Importance
18. Main Street Struggles to Return Amid
Suburban Sprawl
19. Civic Identity and Social Change in
the 1990s
20. City and Region at the End of the
Twentieth Century
21. Main Street and the Twenty-first-Century
Cultural Landscape
Epilogue Main Street Revisited
Notes
Annotated Bibliography
Index